Witthüser and Westrupp"Trips unt Träume"
1971 (Ohr) / 1999 (Ohr, ZYX Music)
1. Laßt uns auf die Reise gehn - 04:00
2. Trippo Nova - 08:55
3. Orienta - 07:35
4. Illusion I - 04:35
5. Karlchen - 09:05
6. Englischer Walzer - 01:38
7. Nimm doch einen Joint, mein Freund - 03:30
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Review from Wire Magazine (October 2009):
"The duo of Bernd Witthüser and Walter Westrupp made only one truly great LP, Trips & Träume (Trips & Dreams), but their influence can be felt throughout the Kosmische music saga. They provide the connection to traditional German folk music, even while reimagining it as a mushroom-fuelled mainline to a Bavarian neverland where oompah bands and bespectacled singer-songwriters float on candyfloss clouds illuminated by dense white-light drones. Ohr was the first major label subsidiary to be launched specifically to document the new German underground, and Witthüser & Westrupp were the inspiration for Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser’s takeover of a further subsidiary, the Kosmische folk imprint Pilz that released their music up until they split in 1973. Their fairly unremarkable first album, 1970’s Lieder Von Vampiren, Nonen Und Toten (Songs Of Vampires, Nones And The Dead), was billed as a solo Witthüser recording, due to his already established career as a protest singer. But it’s worth hearing if only as a contrast with Trips & Tr äume. The huge creative gulf between the two suggests a catastrophic psychedelic initiation in the space of a few months, with the pair moving from po-faced political poets to fully turnedon heads with a penchant for extended marijuana goofs, lucid Kosmische settings and traditional arrangements that cross euphoric atmospherics with a wide-eyed though still endearingly woolly-jumpered delivery. A one-off in its precise integration of wildly divergent times and places, this oddly affecting album is one of the key Kosmische music recordings."
